What are the key factor(s) for success in this industry/market

Answer:

Strategic Focus (Leadership, Management, Planning) People (Personnel, Staff, Learning, Development) Operations (Processes, Work) Marketing (Customer Relations, Sales, Responsiveness)

Explanation:

Whether you're operating an established small business or just starting out, an effective, ongoing marketing strategy is vital. But marketing without a plan will not only waste time and money; it may alienate your customers and stall the growth of your business.

To match your marketing strategies to the needs and expectations of your target customers and ensure that your business continues to grow, start by identifying your key success factors.

Key success factors (or KSF) are business strategies that are critical to a successful relationship with your customers.

Key success factors are decided by the needs and preferences of your market and customers, not by your business. However, consumers aren't going to tell you what those KSF are. Discovering your key success factors requires researching your customers to understand who they are, what they want from your company, and what prompts them to make a purchase.

A business generally has three to five key success factors that it needs to focus on to achieve its goals. Key success factors also may relate to areas of weakness that you must overcome to create a stronger relationship with your customers.

Once you understand and begin using your key success factors, they become part of your brand and business style.

Admitting New Partner Who Contributes Assets After the tangible assets have been adjusted to current market prices, the capital accounts of Brad Paulson and Drew Webster have balances of $45,000 and $60,000, respectively. Austin Neel is to be admitted to the partnership, contributing $30,000 cash to the partnership, for which he is to receive an ownership equity of $35,000. All partners share equally in income.

Required:
a. Journalize the entry to record the admission of Neel, who is to receive a bonus of $5,000.
b. What are the capital balances of each partner after the admission of the new partner?
c. Why are tangible assets adjusted to current market prices prior to admitting a new partner?

1. Stockholders invest $90,000 cash to start the business.
2. Purchased three digital copy machines for $400,000, paying $118,000 cash and signing a 5-year, 6% note for the remainder.
3. Purchased $5,500 paper supplies on credit.
4. Cash received for photocopy services amounted to $8,400.
5. Paid $500 cash for radio advertising.
6. Paid $800 on account for paper supplies purchased in transaction 3.
7. Dividends of $1,600 were paid to stockholders.
8. Paid $1,200 cash for rent for the current month.
9. Received $2,200 cash advance from a customer for future copying.
10. Billed a customer for $500 for photocopy services completed.
No. Account Titles and Descriptions Debit Credit
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Fort Corporation had the following transactions during its first month of operations: 1. Purchased raw materials on account, $85,000. 2. Raw Materials of $30,000 were requisitioned to the factory. An analysis of the materials requisition slips indicated that $6,000 was classified as indirect materials. 3. Factory labor costs incurred were $175,000 of which $145,000 pertained to factory wages payable and $30,000 pertained to employer payroll taxes payable. 4. Time tickets indicated that $145,000 was direct labor and $30,000 was indirect labor. 5. Overhead costs incurred on account were $198,000. 6. Manufacturing overhead was applied at the rate of 150% of direct labor cost. 7. Goods costing $115,000 are still incomplete at the end of the month; the other goods were completed and transferred to finished goods. 8. Finished goods costing $100,000 to manufacture were sold on account for $130,000.

A worker has two jobs, and they can choose to work any number of hours in a day on each job (up to the upper limit, if any), but can only work on one job at a time. The first job pays $10 per hour and has an upper limit of 6 hours per day. The second job pays $6 per hour and has no upper limit (for example, fixed-contract online freelance work). The worker will always choose the first job if they can. Consider their budget constraint with the amount of daily leisure time on the horizontal axis (from 0 to 24 hours) and their consumption expenditure on the vertical axis (which equals their daily income). Based on this information, which of the following is correct?

a. The workers budget constraint is kinked at 6 hours of free time.
b. The worker will never choose to consume exactly 18 hours of free time.
c. The slope of the budget constraint is -6 when the hours of free time is small, and 10 when the hours of free time is large.
d. For the choice of 8 hours of free time, the maximum expenditure for the day is 96

Suppose that France and Austria both produce rye and wine. France's opportunity cost of producing a bottle of wine is 4 bushels of rye while Austria's opportunity cost of producing a bottle of wine is 10 bushels of rye. By comparing the opportunity cost of producing wine in the two countries, you can tell that __________ has a comparative advantage in the production of wine and __________has a comparative advantage in the production of rye.


Suppose that France and Austria consider trading wine and rye with each other. France can gain from specialization and trade as long as it receives more than __________of rye for each bottle of wine it exports to Austria. Similarly, Austria can gain from trade as long as it receives more than __________of wine for each bushel of rye it exports to France.

Based on your answer to the last question, which of the following prices of trade (that is, price of wine in terms of rye) would allow both Austria and France to gain from trade?

a. 7 bushels of rye per bottle of wine
b. 4 bushels of rye per bottle of wine
c. 1 bushel of rye per bottle of wine
d. 11 bushels of rye per bottle of wine

31. Which one is not the barriers of Enterpreneurship:
(A) Lack of technical skills
(B) Political instability
(C) Technical knowledge
(D) Time pressure and distractions​

Your company assembles five different models of a motor scooter that is sold in specialty stores in the United States. The company uses the same engine for all five models. You have been given the assignment of choosing a supplier for these engines for the coming year. Due to the size of your warehouse and other administrative restrictions, you must order the engines in lot sizes of 1,000 units. Because of the unique characteristics of the engine, special tooling is needed during the manufacturing process for which you agree to reimburse the supplier. Your assistant has obtained quotes from two reliable engine suppliers and you need to decide which to use. The following data have been collected:

Requirements (annual forecast) 12,000 units
Weight per engine 22 pounds
Order processing cost $125 per order
Inventory carry cost 20 percent of the average value of inventory per year

Assume that half of lot size is in inventory on average (1,000/2 = 500 units).

Two qualified suppliers have submitted the following quotations:

ORDER QUANTITY SUPPLIER 1 UNIT PRICE SUPPLIER 2 UNIT PRICE
1 to 1,499 units/order $510.00 $505.00
1,500 to 2,999 units/order 500.00 505.00
3,000 + units/order 490.00 488.00
Tooling costs $22,000 $20,000
Distance 125 miles 100 miles

Your assistant has obtained the following freight rates from your carrier:

Truckload (40.000 lbs. each load): $0.80 per ton-mile
Less-than-truckload: $1.20 per ton-mile

Required:
a. Calculate the total cost for each supplier.
b. Which supplier would you select?
c. If you could move the lot size up to ship in truckload quantities, calculate the total cost for each supplier.
d. Would your supplier selection change?

Exercise 2-8 Preparing T-accounts (ledger) and a trial balance LO P2 Following are the transactions of a new company called Pose-for-Pics Aug. 1 Madison Harris, the owner, invested $6,see cash and $33,509 of photog company paid $2,100 cash for an insurance policy covering the next 24 month:s s The company purchased office supplies for $888 cash. 20 The company received $3,331 cash in photography fees earned. 31 The company paid $675 cash for August utilities.
Required:
1. Post the transactions to the T-accounts.
2. Use the amounts from the T-accounts in Requirement (1) to prepare an August 31 trial balance for Pose-for-Pics. Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below.
Required 1 Required 2
Post the transactions to the T-accounts Cash ies Balance

Assume Merck (MRK) just announced that its next dividend will be $2, paid one year from now (you just missed the prior annual dividend). You expect the dividend will grow (after the $2 dividend) by 3% per year forever. Your required return is 10%. What are you willing to pay for a share of Merck stock

Pharoah Inc. has decided to raise additional capital by issuing $173,000 facevalue of bonds with a coupon rate of 6%. In discussions with investment bankers, it was determined that to help the sale of thebonds, detachable stock warrants should be issued at the rate of one warrant for each $100 bond sold. The value of the bondswithout the warrants is considered to be $155,700, and the value of the warrants in the market is $20,760. The bonds sold in the market at issuance for $174,600.
A. What entry should be made at the time of the issuance of the bonds and warrants?
B. Prepare the entry if the warrants were non-detachable.

Assume you work for a valuation firm, and you have been given the assignment of valuing a local law firm comprising three partners and four associates. One partner plans to retire spoon, and the partners are trying to agree on the value of a one-third interest in the firm in order to buy out the departing partner's interest. The firm's revenue per partner is two times higher than that of the average firm of a similar size, but you soon discover that 80% of firm revenue is from one client.

Required:
Please raise one question about this scenario that you would want to address.

Case Inc. is a construction company specializing in custom patios. The patios are constructed of concrete, brick, fiberglass, and lumber, depending upon customer preference. On June 1, 2017, the general ledger for Case Inc. contains the following data.

Raw Materials Inventory $4,200 Manufacturing Overhead Applied $32,640

Work in Process Inventory $5,540 Manufacturing Overhead Incurred $31,650

Subsidiary data for Work in Process Inventory on June 1 are as follows.

Job Cost Sheets

Customer Job

Cost Element Rodgers Stevens Linton

Direct materials $600 $800 $900

Direct labor 320 540 580

Manufacturing overhead 400 675 725

$1,320 $2,015 $2,205

During June, raw materials purchased on account were $4,900, and all wages were paid. Additional overhead costs consisted of depreciation on equipment $900 and miscellaneous costs of $400 incurred on account.

A summary of materials requisition slips and time tickets for June shows the following.

Customer Job Materials Requisition Slips Time Tickets

Rodgers $800 $850

Koss 2,000 800

Stevens 500 360

Linton 1,300 1,200

Rodgers 300 390

4,900 3,600

General use 1,500 1,200

$6,400 $4,800

Overhead was charged to jobs at the same rate of $1.25 per dollar of direct labor cost. The patios for customers Rodgers, Stevens, and Linton were completed during June and sold for a total of $18,900. Each customer paid in full.

Instructions

Journalize the June transactions: (1) for purchase of raw materials, factory labor costs incurred, and manufacturing overhead cost incurred; (2) assignment of direct materials, labor, and overhead to production; and (3) completion of jobs and sale of goods.
Post the entries to Work in Process Inventory.
Reconcile the balance in Work in Process Inventory with the costs of unfinished jobs.
Prepare a cost of goods manufactured schedule for June.

Consider the following story:
Woody loves bowling, and he also loves Beth.
Woody does not particularly like the beach.
The best outcome for Woody is to be at the bowling alley with Beth.
Given the choice of going bowling alone or being at the beach with Beth, Woody would choose to be with Beth.
The worst outcome for Woody is to be at the beach alone.
Beth loves the beach, and she also loves Woody.
Beth does not particularly like bowling.
The best outcome for Beth is to be at the beach with Woody.
Given the choice of going to the beach alone or bowling with Woody, Beth would choose to be with Woody.
The worst outcome for Beth is to be at the bowling alley alone. Woody and Beth plan to meet after work, but each has forgotten where. Suppose the following payoff matrix tells the story, given Woody and Beth's preferences above.
Complete the matrix by filling in the missing payoffs. (Enter your responses as integers.)
Beth
Bowling Beach
Woody Bowling
Beach
a. Find all Nash equilibria in this game, if any.
b. Is this game an archetype? If yes, identify the archetype and explain your selection.

Which are possible employers in the Financial career cluster? Check ALL that apply.

A. private company
B. government
C. nonprofit organization
D. bank
E. stock market

Luzadis Company makes furniture using the latest automated technology. The company uses a job-order costing system and applies manufacturing overhead cost to products on the basis of machine-hours. The predetermined overhead rate was based on a cost formula that estimates $900,000 of total manufacturing overhead for an estimated activity level of 75,000 machine-hours.

During the year, a large quantity of furniture on the market resulted in cutting back production and a buildup of furniture in the company’s warehouse. The company’s cost records revealed the following actual cost and operating data for the year:


Machine-hours 76,000
Manufacturing overhead cost $637,000
Inventories at year-end:
Raw materials $20,000
Work in process (includes overhead applied of $36,480) $115,800
Finished goods (includes overhead applied of $91,200) $289,500
Cost of goods sold (includes overhead applied of $480,320) $1,524,700

Required:

a. Compute the underapplied or overapplied overhead.
b. Assume that the company closes any underapplied or overapplied overhead to Cost of Goods Sold. Prepare the appropriate journal entry. (If no entry is required for a transaction/event, select "No journal entry required" in the first account field.)
c. Assume that the company allocates any underapplied or over appliedoverhead proportionally to Work in Process, Finished Goods, and Cost of Goods Sold. Prepare the appropriate journal entry. (If no entry is required for a transaction/event, select "No journal entry required" in the first account field.)
d. How much higher or lower will net operating income be if the underapplied or overapplied overhead is allocated to Work in Process, Finished Goods, and Cost of Goods Sold rather than being closed to Cost of Goods Sold?

BensonBenson​ & Company is an architectural firm specializing in home remodeling for private clients and new office buildings for corporate clients. charges customers at a billing rate equal to ​% of the​ client's total job cost. A​ client's total job cost is a combination of​ (1) professional time spent on the client ​( per hour cost of employing each​ professional) and​ (2) operating overhead allocated to the​ client's job. allocates operating overhead to jobs based on professional hours spent on the job. estimates its five professionals will incur a total of​ 10,000 professional hours working on client jobs during the year.

AllissaAllissa LarsonLarson hired BensonBenson to design her kitchen remodeling. A total of 35 professional hours were incurred on this job. In​ addition, LarsonLarson​'s remodeling job required one of the professionals to travel back and forth to her house for a total of 155 miles. The blueprints had to be copied four times because LarsonLarson changed the plans several times. In​ addition, 14 hours of secretarial time were used lining up the subcontractors for the job.

All operating costs other than professional salaries​ (travel reimbursements, copy​ costs, secretarial​ salaries, office​ lease, and so​forth) can be assigned to the three activities. Total activity​ costs, cost​ drivers, and total usage of those cost drivers are estimated as​ follows:


Activity Total Activity Cost Cost Driver Usage Total Usage by Corporate Clients Total usage by Private Clients


Transporation to clients. . . . . . $9,000 Round-trip mileage to clients. . . . . 1,500 miles 13,500 miles
Blueprint copying. . . . . . . . . . . 35,000 Number of copies. . . . . . . . . . . . 250 copies 750 copies
Office support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190,000 Secretarial time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,600 secretarial 2,400 secretarial
hours hours
Total operating overhead. . . . $234,000

Required:
a. Calculate the current indirect cost allocation rate per professional hour.
b. Calculate the total amount that would be billed to LarsonLarson given the current costing structure.
c. Calculate the activity cost allocation rates that could be used to allocate operating overhead costs to client jobs.
d. Calculate the amount that would be billed to LarsonLarson using ABC costing.
e. Which type of billing system is more fair to​ clients? Explain.

Suppose you are a manager for a multinational company that produces a variety of beauty products. Heartland Company was founded in 1942 and began making shampoo and soap products. Heartland, headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, now sells hair care, soap, and makeup products in 22 countries across the globe. Heartland holds the majority market share in the U.S. and is largely regarded as a trend-leader in hair and beauty products. As the Global Brand Vice President, you have been tasked with taking the brand to Brazil, considered to be a large cosmetics market in the next few years. The Brazilian cosmetics and hair care market is largely dominated by Belleza who currently holds a 60% market share. Belleza is marketed toward young, fashion-forward women. The second largest company, Botánico, holds just a 20% share of the market. Your research suggests that while Botánico has efficient manufacturing and distribution, young consumers see them as being a brand for their mothers and grandmothers.

Given the information above, what is the best market entry strategy for this company?

a. Partnership
b. Exporting
c. Outsourcing

A group of 10 pineapple pickers can pick 240 pineapples in an hour. When one more pineapple picker is added to the group, they can pick 270 pineapples in an hour. Calculate the marginal product of the 11th pineapple picker.

what will you use for banca/boat to move​

Assume the bonds below have the same term and principal and that the state or local government that issues the municipal bond has a good credit rating. Which list has bonds correctly ordered from the one that pays the highest interest rate to the one that pays the lowest interest rate

Harnett Corporation has two manufacturing departments--Molding and Assembly. The company used the following data at the beginning of the period to calculate predetermined overhead rates:

Molding Assembly Total
Estimated total machine-hours (MHs) 3,000 7,000 10,000
Estimated total fixed manufacturing overhead cost $24,000 $53,200 $77,200
Estimated variable manufacturing overhead cost per MH $1.00 $2.00

During the period, the company started and completed two jobs--Job E and Job M. Data concerning those two jobs follow:

Job E Job M
Direct materials $21,600 $9,300
Direct labor cost $22,600 $9,500
Molding machine-hours 2,500 500
Assembly machine-hours 2,500 4,500

Required:
a. Assume that the company uses a plant-wide predetermined manufacturing overhead rate based on machine-hours. Calculate that overhead rate, (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)
b. Assume that the company uses a plant-wide predetermined manufacturing overhead rate based on machine-hours. Calculate the amount of manufacturing overhead applied to Job E. (Do not round intermediate calculations.)
c. Assume that the company uses a plant-wide predetermined manufacturing overhead rate based on machine-hours. Calculate the total manufacturing cost assigned to Job E. (Do not round intermediate calculations.)
d. Assume that the company uses a plant-wide predetermined manufacturing overhead rate based on machine-hours and uses a markup of 20% on manufacturing cost to establish se ling prices. Calculate the selling price for Job E. (Do not round intermediate
calculations.)
e. Assume that the company uses departmental predetermined overhead rates with machine-hours as the allocation base in both departments. What is the departmental predetermined overhead rate in the Molding department? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)
f. Assume that the company uses departmental predetermined overhead rates with machine-hours as the a location base in both production departments. What is the departmental predetermined overhead rate in the Assembly department? (Round your answer to

The marginal external cost associated with air pollution increases with the annual output of a polluting industry. At the current competitive equilibrium level of output per year, the marginal external cost is $10 per unit of output. To achieve efficiency,
a. a corrective tax of $10 per unit of output is required.
b. a corrective tax of more than $10 per unit of output is required.
c. a corrective tax of less than $10 per unit of output is required.
d. a corrective subsidy of $10 per unit of output is required.
e. a corrective subsidy of less than $10 per unit of output is required .

Seiko’s current salary is $85,000. Her marginal tax rate is 32 percent and she fancies European sports cars. She purchases a new auto each year. Seiko is currently a manager for an Idaho Office Supply. Her friend, knowing of her interest in sports cars, tells her about a manager position at the local BMW and Porsche dealer. The new position pays only $75,000 per year, but it allows employees to purchase one new car per year at a discount of $15,000. This discount qualifies as a nontaxable fringe benefit. In an effort to keep Seiko as an employee, Idaho Office Supply offers her a $10,000 raise. Answer the following questions about this analysis.
Problem 12-41
Part a a. Assuming it has a 21 percent marginal tax rate, what is the annual after-tax cost to Idaho Office Supply to provide Seiko with the $10,000 increase in salary?

Mindy Novak is writing a paper and he must determine which of Porter's three generic strategies Beulah’s Boutiques has implemented. Mindy finds out that Beulah’s Boutiques offers specialty products found only in boutiques around the world to affluent customers. What would Mindy determine Beulah’s Boutiques is using as its generic strategy?

What is considered revenue recognition?

On May 11 Sydney accepts delivery of $20,500 of merchandise it purchases for resale from Troy: invoice dated May 11, terms 3/10, n/90, FOB shipping point. The goods cost Troy $13,735. Sydney pays $410 cash to Express Shipping for delivery charges on the merchandise. 12 Sydney returns $1,300 of the $20,500 of goods to Troy, who receives them the same day and restores them to its inventory. The returned goods had cost Troy $871. 20 Sydney pays Troy for the amount owed. Troy receives the cash immediately. (Both Sydney and Troy use a perpetual inventory system and the gross method.)

Required:
a. Prepare journal entries that Sydney Retailing (buyer) records for these three transactions.
b. Prepare journal entries that Troy Wholesalers (seller) records for these three transactions.

Etxuck327 Inc. sells a particular textbook for $39. Variable expenses are $28 per book. At the current volume of 49,000 books sold per year the company is just breaking even. Given these data, the annual fixed expenses associated with the textbook total:

Pitbull Construction Corporation applies IFRS, has equipment that it can reliably measure fair value of, and has chosen to apply the revaluation model to valuing this equipment on its accounting records. The carrying value of this equipment on Pitbull's books at the end of last year, December 31, 20X1, was $200,000. At the end of this year, December 31, 20X2, due to decreased demand for the equipment, especially when resold as used, the fair value is $150,000. For the year 20X2, in relation to this equipment for which Pitbull has chosen to apply the revaluation method, Pitbull must:_________

________ is used to make purchases while ________ is the total collection of pieces of property that serve to store value.

Analyzing Unearned Revenue Disclosures
The following disclosures (excerpted) are from the August 28, 2016, annual report of Costco Wholesale Corporation.
Revenue Recognition: We generally recognize sales, net of estimated returns, at the time the member takes possession of merchandise or receives services. When we collect payment from customers prior to the transfer of ownership of merchandise or the performance of services, the amount recieved is generally recorded as deferred revenue on the consolidated balance sheets until the sales or service is completed. Membership fee revenue represents annual membership fees paid by our memberships. We account for membership fee revenue, net of estimated refunds, on a deferred basis, whereby revenue is recognized ratably over the one-year membership period.
Revenue
($ millions) August 28, 2016 August 30, 2015 August 31, 2014
Net Sales $116,073 $113,666 $110,212
Membership fees 2,646 2,533 2,428
Total revenue $118,719 $116,199 $112,640
Current Liabilities ($ millions) August 28, 2016 August 30, 2015
Accounts payable $7,612 $9,011
Current portion of long-term debt 1,100 1,283
Accrued salaries and benefits 2,629 2,468
Accured member rewards 869 813
Deferred membership fees 1,362 1,269
Other current liabilities 2,003 1,695
Total current liabilities $15,575 $16,539
(a) Which of the following statements best explains in layman terms how Costco accounts for the cash received for its membership fees?
Because Costco does not know how many of its members will continue to the end of the year, cash received from members is recorded as a liability and recognized as revenue only at year-end.
When it receives cash, the company records it as a current liability. Then, it recognizes revenue evenly over the year.
The company records revenue when the cash is received.
Because Costco has a refund policy, the company records revenue when the cash is received, less an allowance for expected membership terminations.
Mark 1.00 out of 1.00
(b) Use the balance sheet information on Costco's Deferred Membership Fees liability account and its income statement revenues related to Membership Fees earned during 2016 to compute the cash that Costco received during 2016 for membership fees.
Total cash received (in $ millions) = $Answer
(c) Use the financial statement effects template to show the effect of the cash Costco received during 2016 for membership fees and the recognition of membership fees revenue for 2016.
Use negative signs with answers, when appropriate.
Balance Sheet
Transaction ($ millions)
Cash Asset + Noncash Assets = Liabilities + Contributed Capital + Earned Capital
Receive cash in advance for membership fees Answer Answer Answer Answer Answer
Recognized membership fees earned Answer Answer Answer Answer Answer
Income Statement
Revenue - Expenses = Net Income
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